A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.